Intermittent denial of write permission

[David Hyde]

About every other time I boot with Ubuntu I find that I, and any programs running, cannot write to disk. A write-protected or read-only message is returned. Running the boot recovery mode fixes the problem.
This is on an Ubuntu 10.6 ?? loaded with dual boot with 2 SCSI drives.
Reading from the drives is no problem- just writing - affects the system attempts to write as well

Regards

David Hyde

[John Dong (jdong)]

Not a breezy-backports bug, opened Ubuntu bug ticket.

My best guess is that you might be experiencing disk corruption that is forcing the drive to be mounted read-only. During a read-only boot, look at dmesg output and see if there's anything peculiar.

Also try booting onto a LiveCD and running a sudo fsck /dev/sdb1, where sdb1 is the name of the root partition of your Linux setup.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.